Events

2015 Events

The Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York fulfills part of its mission through regular programs relevant to the field. We are planning our coming year and want to share some of what you can look forward to:

of Greater New York
andThe CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College

Monthly

NYC-DR Roundtable Breakfast

THE MASTER PRACTITIONER AND LEONARDO DA VINCI:

META-COGNITION, CREATIVITY AND NEUROSCIENCE

NAN WALLER BURNETT

Nan Waller Burnett, MA, will lead an interactive discussion on the current research in creativity theory. She'll explain how the work of the master practitioner is informed through meta-cognition, intentional focused self-referential thinking,

an understanding of the creative processes in the brain and neurobiology. She'll give an overview of the creative thinking strategies of Leonardo da Vinci and their relevance to our work. Participants will engage in interactive exercises designed to develop the creative and intuitive areas of their brains.

NAN WALLER BURNETT is a dynamic facilitator, author, transformative high conflict mediator, psychotherapist, conflict systems design consultant, executive conflict coach, educator and founding partner in Dispute Resolution Professionals, LLC, established in 1997 in the Denver metropolitan area. An expert in high conflict family systems and multiparty complex workplace disputes, she was trained as a mediator at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation in 1995, as well as USPS REDRESS Transformative model in 1998/ She received specialized Divorce and Child Custody training at CDR in Boulder, CO. She has mediatore more than 3,000 cases and holds the Advanced Practitioner status in the Workplace, Training and Family Sections of the Association for Conflict Resolution.